Nested toy blocks.



P'ATENTED APR.16, 1907.

I No. 850,490.

J. H. PRICE. NESTED TOY BLOCKS. APPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE 9, 1906.

wi/tme ooeo UNITED srnt ggs rA'rENT OFFICE,

i JOHN H. PRICE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

I I INESTEDITOY BLOCKS,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. PRICE, a British subject,residin in the city, county, and

State of New Yor have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Nested Toy Blocks, of which the following is a spanfication.

shall be cheaper than the ordinary way of making them and which will produce a stronger and more durable block In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a erspective view of a set of nested blocks, s owing the open ends thereof;

and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same inverted. Figs. 3, 4, 5; and 6 show the elements or members of the block to be hereinafter described. Fig. 7 is an enlarged, sectional View of the block, showing the plies of pa er-board used the block. 7 n Fig. 1 the numerals 1, 2,3, 4, and 5des- I ignate the several nested blocks, of WhlOl'l Fi 2 shows only the outer or larger one.

Fig: 3 shows the outer member a of the block. This is a square tube formed by scoring and folding a sheet of paper-board and joining together the meeting edges thereof,

I preferably by means of a strip of woven abric l1, glued or pasted on. Fig. 4 shows two like reinforcing members a, one of which is shown separate inFig. 5. Each of these members is made from stifi aper-board with two scores, and each mem er forms an end ply and two side plies. Fig. 4.- shows the two members 0 placed together} one with n the other, so that the parts which are to form tl en end plies are superposed. Figfifi shows the inner or lining member (1. T 's member is tubular and similar to the member a, but

smaller, and the meeting edges are notclosed by a strip. In making the block from these members the two members a are put to-- gether, as seen in F1g. 4, and then pushed Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 9, 1906. Serial. No. 320,976.

Patented April 16, 1907.

down into the tubular member a, after which the member dis pushed down inside the members c. The effect is to produce a structure like that seen in Fig. 7that is, with three plies in the sides or side walls and two plies in the end or end wall. Preferably the rein forcing members a will be made from thicker board than is employed in the members a and d, so that the two end plies will be about as thick as the three side lies; The members may be pasted or glue togetherin making the block.

After making the structure, as seen in Fig. 7, it may be, and usually will be, covered exteriorly with a thin glazed or varnished sheet on which are printed pictures, the lotters of the al 'habet, or the like to interest and instruct c iildren; but this is a common i feature and forms no novel part of the present invention.

It may be explained that the member a constitutes fourconnected side plies of the block. The members a each constitute two side plies of the block and one end ply, all connected, and the member (Z constitutes four connected side plies of the block. 1 The members and their arts will of course have the proper or desired proportions or dimensions and maybe cut from paper-board "board, which also constitutes plies of the four sides, and two like reinforcing members of strong paper, each of said reinforcing members comprising two side plies and an end ply, the end plies o" said members being superposed, and the several side plies thereof interposed between side plies of the said inner and outer members.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a boX-like'toy block made wholly of paperboard and the structure consisting of the open-ended, square tube a, secured at its i -Ii1 witness whereof I have hereunto signed 7 bers c, which have their middleseetions su--' meeting edges by a strip 7), the open-ended, my name, this 7th day 9f June, 1906, in th square i1l11l1g-'t1lb6 d, and the two like Inempresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

. t JOHN H.1RIC1 1 perposed to form end plies and their end sec: Witnesses: v

tions interposed between the plies of the HENRY DISTLER,

said tubes a and (Z; I CHARLES A, Cmcnes'rnu 

